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1. Street Fair 1959
   203 downloads
2. [Israel before and after the Six Day War]
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3. Anais Nin
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4. Malcolm X
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5. Long Beach Earthquake: March 10, 1933
   15 downloads

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1. Life in Ontario: You and Your Friends
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2. Malcolm X
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3. Lisa Demo
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4. Street Fair 1959
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5. Long Beach Earthquake: March 10, 1933
   940 downloads

Staff Picks

1. [Legacy of Martin Luther King, 1970]
   
2. California College of Arts and Crafts newsreel for Spring 1952
   
3. Life on the abyssal floor
   
4. Lisa Demo
   
5. Baby nursery (reel 5)
   
6. [Governor's Traffic Safety Committee commercials]
   
7. [Film footage of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition]
   
8. Palomar Archives
   
9. Go Western Pacific to San Francisco
   
10. [Home movies. James David Zellerbach. 1929 family retreat]
    

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Baby nursery (reel 6)
Description: Amateur movie of the baby nursery at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Mission in Jonestown, Guyana.Collection Guide: Peoples Temple RecordsSource: 1 Reel of 1: Film: Super 8mmCall Number: MS 3800; Film reel 6Rights: Rights are owned by the California Historical Society (CHS). CHS has...

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